Midday Edition: 06 July 2026

The Midday Edition of News Fix for 06 July 2026, straight from the Newstalk ZB newsroom - bringing you everything you need to know in news, politics, business, entertainment and sport.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Good afternoon. I'm Jody Gill and this is your midday
news fokes for Monday, the sixth of July. The Waytaki
district has been drenched by more than double the average
July rainfall overnight. It's declared a state of emergency, with
about twenty or MOREU households evacuated overnight and about forty
weather related emergency calls met services. One hundred millimeters fell

(00:25):
last night against a moreu's monthly average of about forty
y Tucky Mayor mel Taverndale says people are frustrated they
didn't feel prepared for the scale of flooding. Their main
stormwater area was opened up yesterday to make sure we're
reading that. You can only do so much in a
stormwurder system that does not prepared for that level of
rainfall in one time. It's not clear if Friday's visit

(00:48):
by India's Prime Minister will produce any new announcements. Narendra
Modi is coming for one day, the first visit from
an Indian leader in forty years. He'll hold bilateral talks
with Chris Luxen, meet business leaders and attend an Indian
New Zealand community event. Chris Sucksen says it's too early
to say when they'll turn off the tap on government

(01:08):
fuel support. The Prime Minister says ninety one is consistently
costing less than three dollars a letter now in many places,
but he says that alone isn't enough.

Speaker 2 (01:18):
NBD a regionally weighted averaged fuel price across the country.
For the temporary timely targeted support, it's got to be
four weeks consecutive weeks under three dollars.

Speaker 1 (01:28):
Decades old median barriers on Auckland's highway network deemed and
adequate by a coroner investigating a horrific triple fatal crash
will be replaced by safer and more modern barriers, but
they will remain in other parts of the country and
only be replaced when they can no longer be repaired
and as funding allows. A truck blue attire and plowed

(01:50):
through the barrier on State Highway one between Bombay and
Rama Rama before slamming into a van in August twenty
twenty four. It killed three men and caused to coroner
to recommend the removal of all barriers around the country.
Voices are still being heard within Rubble and Venezuela since
devastating double earthquakes twelve days ago. The death toll is

(02:12):
nearing three thousand, but tens of thousands are still unaccounted for.
Conditions for Venezuelans are a dire, with people sleeping in
makeshift shelters or outside Canadian news outlets CBC News or Hey.
Barrera is in one of the hardest hit areas.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
There's people reporting that they've heard voices and they want
search and rescue teams to come here and scan. But
next to them there's this work happening that could topple
this building.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
In sport, Norway's reached the Football World Cup quarter finals
for the first time, eliminating five time champions Brazil to
one in the round of sixteen. Suspicion around the football
world regarding Donald Trump's influence on the overturned suspension of
US striker Flow Balligan at the World Cup. Women's tennis

(03:04):
number one arena Saberlenka has been sent packing in the
fourth round of Wimbledon, beaten in straight sets by Japan's
Naomi Osaka, and debutant aar Gate has finished State two
of cycling's Tour de France despite being bloodied from a
crash early on in the stage. I'm Jody Gill and
that's your latest news fix. Will we back with the

(03:26):
next update at five p m. From the news Talk
zb newsroom.